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Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by hogu »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #35
vitalique wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a great (but somewhat lengthy) video tutorial[1] from Pycon US'12 that covers a lot of IPython and the Notebook. Highly recommended; it's a live demo by the authors of the tools. Seriously, IPython is the coolest thing that happened to Python since Python, and anyone even slightly interested owes it to himself to play with IPython. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5YTlheCbw

I'm interested in installing EPD, but it seems to want to install in my C:\Python27 directory (I'm on Windows here at work). Will this overwrite or otherwise interrupt my existing Python installation?

Hey, you should try the Anaconda Community Edition. It's a larger download, but that's because it comes with more packages(which may be good or bad, depending on your opinion) But it by default installs into C:/Anaconda, and it allows you to change the installation directory.

I work for Continuum, btw

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by hogu »

nemoniac wrote: post #27
olefoo wrote: post #8

IPython notebook is actually one of the most interesting developments not just in the python world, but in computing generally. It's the first step towards the fully graphical shell on the internet that many of us have been looking for, whether or not we realize it. Being able to weave together text|markdown, tabular data (in almost any format you want) and images ( whether from matplotlib, raw captures, or synthetic…

I hate to dump on this but IMHO what the world has been waiting for is not a Mathematica clone in Python. Neither do I think it would be a step in the right direction to funnel Python development through the browser. There are those who will find it useful but others will find that there are better desktop tools for these purposes. Individual developers are free to pick and choose. Fortunately, neither this announcem…

What do you think the world is waiting for, and what are these better desktop tools?

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by tehwalrus »

vitalique wrote: post #21
andybak wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sorely needs some better tutorials, demos. The official docs are dry and dwell on technical matters rather than giving you some sense of the potential. There isn't much else out there - especially if you aren't doing scientific or statistical work. I'm sure the iPython Notebook could be useful in my day to day Python/Django usage but I haven't figured out how yet.

There's a great (but somewhat lengthy) video tutorial[1] from Pycon US'12 that covers a lot of IPython and the Notebook. Highly recommended; it's a live demo by the authors of the tools. Seriously, IPython is the coolest thing that happened to Python since Python, and anyone even slightly interested owes it to himself to play with IPython. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5YTlheCbw

that is amazing. I assumed ipython was just another interactive shell - I will be using notebooks to collate my thoughts forever now! (indeed, it sounds like I could now do most of my development off a chromebook and a cloud server.)

edit: for clarification, I saw this comment, and three hours later I'm back to reply.

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by gjreda »

nimrody wrote: post #30

I would be wonderful if we could re-use the notebook interface for other language - Octave, Julia, R, Ruby. (Would also be nice if building ipython on OS X was easier!)

SciPy Superpack easily installs iPython, SciPy, NumPy, Matplotlib, and others on OSX.

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by tdfx »

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #7

IPython is extremely useful. I like the qtconsole feature but i find it less than perfect to install: 1. pip install ipython 2. install qt4 3. pip install pyside / qt4 bindings The better feature, for me anyway, is the notebook interface (it starts a local web server and gives you a rich web guy, somewhat like a Mathematica idea of interactive notebook editing with inline charting etc.) But, that's a whole other bunc…

For OSX, I've used http://fonnesbeck.github.com/ScipySuperpack/ with no issues.

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by jonknee »

speg wrote: post #59

This might be a silly question, and perhaps not the place for it, apologies in advance. Love iPython, except for one thing I can't seem to figure out. print "Hello World" hit up arrow to recall previous line, press ctrl+a to try and jump to the beginning of the line but instead my cursor jumps to a new empty line on the right side of the screen? What is going on?! I don't get how this split is supposed to work and it…

Do you have readline installed? Your sequence works as expected for me.

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by callahad »

speg wrote: post #59

This might be a silly question, and perhaps not the place for it, apologies in advance. Love iPython, except for one thing I can't seem to figure out. print "Hello World" hit up arrow to recall previous line, press ctrl+a to try and jump to the beginning of the line but instead my cursor jumps to a new empty line on the right side of the screen? What is going on?! I don't get how this split is supposed to work and it…

Are you on OS X? IPython is probably finding libedit instead of readline.

Try doing an `easy_install readline` before you `pip install ipython` in your virtualenv. It should work just fine, then.

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by callahad »

nimrody wrote: post #30

I would be wonderful if we could re-use the notebook interface for other language - Octave, Julia, R, Ruby. (Would also be nice if building ipython on OS X was easier!)

If I'm recalling Fernando's talk from PyConCA correctly, recent versions of IPython are already designed to support other languages: they talk to a python kernel over a wire protocol, instead of directly embedding the interpreter.

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by stcredzero »

vitalique wrote: post #21
andybak wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sorely needs some better tutorials, demos. The official docs are dry and dwell on technical matters rather than giving you some sense of the potential. There isn't much else out there - especially if you aren't doing scientific or statistical work. I'm sure the iPython Notebook could be useful in my day to day Python/Django usage but I haven't figured out how yet.

There's a great (but somewhat lengthy) video tutorial[1] from Pycon US'12 that covers a lot of IPython and the Notebook. Highly recommended; it's a live demo by the authors of the tools. Seriously, IPython is the coolest thing that happened to Python since Python, and anyone even slightly interested owes it to himself to play with IPython. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5YTlheCbw

Wow. Python has become something like Smalltalk, but with some architecture improvements. (Client/server through zeromq) This is to say, it's gone from programming environment to a multimedia glue that allows the integration of automation to everything. (Google DynaBook)

Re: IPython gets $1.15M funding

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Post by simonh »

andybak wrote: post #24
cdavid wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want qt, I would say your best bet is one of the full python distribution for scientific python, e.g. winPython, python(x, y), EPD, Anaconda. Everybody working on one of this is a user of ipython, and care about the notebook, and most of them have a free version available (free as no cost, not necessarily open source) (disclaimer, I work for Enthought, which sells EPD)

The free version of Enthought solved a bunch of problems for me on OSX. It bundles a lot of the binary libraries that are a bitch to compile yourself.

I've had a Mac at home since 2007 and had a go at doing some python programming on it a few years ago and gave up. I got 2.7 installed, virtualenv, even Qt but eventually a few things broke and I ended up switching to programming in a Linux VM.

I might have another go now I've got a shiny new Mini with ML on it. If i have problems I'll give Enthought a try.

Given the popularity of OSX with developers it's shocking how few Python libraries have good OSX binary packages. A few times I've found the easiest platform to work on is actually Windows. For example with PySide for a long time the binaries in all the Linux repos were out of date, OSX support was intermittently flaky, but the Windows installer was complete and up to date.

Yes I know you can compile from source, but I am a Python programmer. I develop software in Python, not C. I wonder if the poor state of binary packages for OSX is actually because it's a Unix variant. i.e. module developers deliberately choose not to do binary OSX builds because hey, the users can just compile from source. No, we can't all compile from source. We're not all C hackers, that's why many of us use Python in the first place.

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